Re: Is Dr. Thiering's reconstruction convincing or a victim of scholarly oversight?

LloydB wrote:
Dear Tom,

Would you ask LloydB what his real gripe is with me?


Gosh, Tom, do you really think I have a "gripe" with David?

David, Specifically?

Or do ya think I just have it in, in general, for any eedjit
who'd post (and cross-post) 500 to 700 times a month,
for four months running, about stuff that isn't archaeology?

But OH NO! ... that's not OCD, that's not trolling, that's
just the cry of a misunderstood genius longing for the
intellectual respect that he so deserves.

Tom, if we could get David, Oriel, Min, Conrad and
Schiller into the same room, and bolt the door, we
could attach wires and light up a small city.

That's not a gripe, that's a PLAN!

Just getting them in the room and bolting the door would be enough. I'd hate to have that room wired in any way for fear that one of them would, out of sheer desperation, discover enough physics to make a computer out of the tin foil in their hats, the gold in their teeth, and the rocks in their heads.

The only thing that I'd add to the room idea would be that it should be entirely surrounded by a Faraday cage, and an Irony pre-filter grounded deeply enough into the nearest layer of Ironium to snatch any stray toxic irony that might get through the Faraday cage.

Of course, we'd have to feed them and give them water. I suppose. Inhumane not to. Right?

Right?

Sigh. And my plan was so good right up until that point.

Although...now that I think of it...couldn't we just consider the room a sort of large Schroedinger's box? We wouldn't have to do anything except not look inside, and they'd stay alive forever.

Well, and dead forever, too. But still....

What city did you have in mind? I'd think St. Louis or Minneapolis or Milwaukee.
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